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of education. The existence of employment observations prior to MBA enrollment allows for the control of unobserved …
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the returns to education. …
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A worker is said to be overeducated if he/she has acquired more education than is required to perform his/her job. In … approach to testing for overeducation. Overeducation is confirmed if we observe that education levels rose in jobs that offer … very low returns to education and that underwent little technological change. Using labor force surveys from four …
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This paper examines the relative labor market gains for first-time college students who entered the North Carolina Community College System in 2002–2003. We compare the returns to diplomas, certificates, and degrees to the returns to some college credits. The authors also investigate the...
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We investigate how the benefits of publicly financed higher education in Turkey are distributed among students with …
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Advocates for educational reform frequently call for policies to increase competition between schools because it is argued that market forces naturally lead to greater efficiencies, including improved student learning, when schools face competition. Researchers examining this issue are...
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This paper shows mutually consistent evidence to support female advantage in education and disadvantage in labor … level of schooling investments in daughters. Because wage penalty to females in labor markets means that education is … relatively important as a determinant of their earnings, parental investments in their daughters’ education has larger impacts on …
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This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and performance in high school using a large and recent cohort study. In particular, we investigate the impact of locus of control, self-esteem, and work ethics at age 15, on test scores at age 16, and on subject...
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The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … the 95% posterior interval for the effect of education on income. Thus, a violation of the strict validity assumption does …
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welfare: vocational education and training. The results suggest that welfare reform reduced enrollment in full-time vocational … education and had no significant effects on part-time vocational education or participation in other types of work … education (including college enrollment), which we replicated in this study, have been offset by increases in vocational …
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